Saturday, July 8, 2017

We didn't have a good start to November. I got the dreaded phone call from school telling me Carter got hurt and I need to come get him. My monkey had fallen off the monkey bars. Luckily, I had already picked up Evelyn from preschool and was on my way home when they called. We went straight to school instead and called Chuck on the way.

While I was picking up Carter, Chuck got the ball rolling at the hospital. As soon as we got there we headed straight to radiology. Sure enough, Carter broke his radius. The pediatric orthopedic surgeon thought it would be best to do a closed reduction. We got it scheduled for the morning and Carter was hard splinted in the mean time.

Carter in pre-op

Chuck took Carter in to pre-op while I got Audrey off to school and Evelyn dropped off at a friend's house. I'm grateful for a wonderful group of preschool mom friends that are my village in times like this. I was able to make it to the hospital shortly after Carter went into the OR. Chuck was with him until he went to sleep and then met me in the waiting room.

They needed to use more sedation than anticipated. He had a tough time waking up as a result. But here he is in post-op giving me a thumbs up.

After some time in recovery, a snack and some juice he was looking more himself and ready to go home. We had a fantastic nurse that had the same taste in books as him. She gave him some recommendations with our discharge papers. The morning moved along smoothly. He was discharged and home in time to pick up Evelyn from school.

He had to learn to accept help with tasks as he was ordered non weight bearing for a few weeks.